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  Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Miami are a North American Indian tribe which inhabited an area to the south and west of Lake Michigan when the first Europeans entered the area in the later 1600s.
Most of the Miami had sold their land to American settlers by 1820, and were moved to reservations in Missouri.
The Miami language is classified in the Central Algonkian linguistic group.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/miami.html   (351 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Miami Indians
In 1673 Allouez, who had learned the language, reports good progress, and that they now hung their offerings upon the cross instead of sacrificing to their heathen gods, chief among which was the Sun.
The main body of the Miami in Indiana throughout this period and for some years after their removal in 1846 were entirely neglected; without either religious or educational work, they sank to the lowest depths through dissipation, and were rapidly and constantly diminishing by intemperance and drunken murders.
Of the language nothing of importance has been published beyond a Wea Primer, by the Baptist mission in 1837, although considerable manuscript exists with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10271a.htm   (1750 words)

  
 Miami Indians
The Miami Indians reentered this area in the late 1600s, and by 1700 had laid claim to the entire Wabash Valley.
Richardville was Civil Chief of the Miami from 1816 to 1841.
Credible historical sources indicate that it was actually Lafontaine who constructed, in the early 1840s, the building we know as "the Chief's House." Lafontaine used this building as his main residence.
www.historicforks.org /miami   (495 words)

  
 Facts for Kids: Miami Indians (Miamis)
We encourage students and teachers to look through our main Miami language and culture pages for in-depth information about the tribe, but here are our answers to the questions we are most often asked by children, with Miami pictures and links we believe are suitable for all ages.
Miami Indian men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families.
Miami men usually shaved their heads in the Mohawk style and wore a porcupine roach.
www.geocities.com /bigorrin/miami_kids.htm   (1369 words)

  
 Illinois language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Illinois language is a Native American language formerly spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by several subtribes, among them the Kaskaskia, Peoria, and Tamaroa.
Illinois is an Algic language of the Algonquian phylum.
It is part of a larger language often called Miami-Illinois, and forms a dialect continuum with Miami and is part of a larger Central and Plains sprachbund.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miami_language   (207 words)

  
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Miami University is located on land in southwest Ohio, which was inhabited by the Miami and other Indian tribes until the mid-1800s.
The Tribe began a language revitalization project in 1995, aided by David Costa, of the University of California at Berkeley.
Since then, the Miamis have developed interactive software, language lessons and tapes, and language and cultural camps in pursuit of saving their language and culture.
www.units.muohio.edu /myaamiaproject/press/documents/press_release.doc   (385 words)

  
 Welcome to News From Indian Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For members of the Miami Nation of Oklahoma, the 200-page book due out in March is a milestone in the effort to rescue their language from the brink of extinction.
Baldwin is a Miami and director of the university’s Myaamia Project for Language Revitalization, established in 2001 to research and preserve the tribe’s history, language and culture.
Baldwin and David Costa, a linguist who studied the Miami language as a graduate student, are considered today’s foremost authorities on the language, and they collaborated on the dictionary.
www.indiancountrynews.com /fullstory.cfm?ID=228   (512 words)

  
 Illinois-Miami Language (Myaamia, Maumee, Illini, Illiniwek, Peoria)
Language: Miami and Illinois are dialects of the same Algonquian language, spoken in Indiana and later Oklahoma.
Though no native speakers of the language remain, language revival efforts are ongoing, and children from both the Miami and Peoria nations are learning to speak their ancestral language again.
The Miami, meanwhile, were trying to fight off attempts by the young United States to drive them from their Ohio lands.
www.native-languages.org /miami-illinois.htm   (471 words)

  
 Myaamia Project
This project was motivated by the desire of tribal members involved in the Miami language and cultural revitalization effort to reconstruct their historical ancestral landscape.
The project is called “The Historical Landscapes of the Miami” and is aimed at mapping the physical and cultural landscapes and land uses of the Miami from around 1650 to 1850.
The Green Bay region was the center of Miami refugees in the second half of the 17th century as a result of pressures from the Iroquois.
www.myaamiaproject.org /project/map.php   (1034 words)

  
 Miami Indian Tribal Language
The Miami language is part of a larger language family known as Algonquin.
Several languages such as the Kickapoo, Mesquakie, Ojibway, Potawatomi, and Shawnee are similar to Miami and also part of the Algonquin family.
The Miami language is an important part of the Miami culture; it is part of the Miami's
www.historicforks.org /miami/miamiexhibit/mlanguage.html   (149 words)

  
 Learn Spanish in Miami, United States
The United States, bordered by Canada to the North, and Mexico to the South, possesses a diverse landscape, ranging from the rugged Rocky Mountains and deserts in the west, to flat plains of the mid-west to the long sandy coast lines along the Atlantic and Pacific shores.
Miami’s tropical climate, landscape and cultural diversity are only part of what makes it a very popular visitor destination.
Almost half of Miami’s population is hispanic, which accounts for the fact that the Spanish language is as prevalent as English.
www.amerispan.com /language_schools/United_States/Miami/3607   (406 words)

  
 THE MIAMI: A special series from AM 580's Jim Meadows
Jim Meadows traveled to Miami, Oklahoma, the population center of the Miami Nation -- the tribe suing to reclaim 2.6 million acres of land in east-central Illinois.
PART 4 (aired February 21, 2001) -- The state's case The attorney handling the Miami land claim case for the state of Illinois says the Miami do not have a case -- and that anyway, they're going after the wrong party in suing private landowners.
PART 6 (aired March 6, 2001) -- The lost language The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma's lawsuit to reclaim land in Illinois has become well known in the state.
www.will.uiuc.edu /news/archives/miami.htm   (545 words)

  
 AAIEP - American Association of Intensive English Language Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
ELS Language Centers offers a group-intensive course that is divided into 12 levels, from beginning to highly advanced.
Miami is home to the Miami Heat, Florida Panthers, Marlins, and Miami Dolphins professional sports teams as well as home to Jai Alai.
Before applying to ELS Language Centers, students can contact a local counseling agent in their city/country by going to www.els.edu.
www.aaiep.org /memdetail.cfm?memid=178   (795 words)

  
 Miami University: Admission
To study at Miami University, you must be able to understand lectures in English from the first day of classes.
Because of this, if your native language is not English, you are required to submit scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or provide alternative evidence of English language proficiency.
To be considered for direct admission into an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree program at Miami University, international students whose native language is not English should have earned either a minimum score of 200 on the computer-based TOEFL, a score of 530 on the paper-based test, or a score of 72 on the Internet-based version.
www.miami.muohio.edu /admission/international_students/language.cfm   (451 words)

  
 the language feed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Miami Tribe researchers vow to again make it a living language by teaching it to English speaking Miami children.
With the expected departures of four professors, Yale's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department is facing an uphill battle as it attempts to grow in response to increased student demand for modern Middle East and Arabic language course offerings.
Once she's mastered the language, she plans to teach it to her husband, a Quechan who never learned his native tongue.
mason.gmu.edu /~smorris2/feed/040305.html   (548 words)

  
 miaminewtimes.com - News - The Man and the Microphone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Then, with several news crews from Miami's English-language television stations crowded into his studio, Fuste asked Ros-Lehtinen to do something that is almost never done on Spanish-language radio in Miami: He asked her to repeat her comments in English.
It was a year ago this month that Fuste surprised much of Cuban Miami by suddenly bolting WQBA-La Cubanisima, where he had held forth for the previous twelve years, and moving to WCMQ, a station with half WQBA's 50,000 watts of power and a fraction of the listening audience.
Although Cuba's middle class was leaving for Miami in droves by 1960, Fuste's father (a mechanic), his mother, brother, and sister were shocked to hear that he would joining the exodus.
www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/1994-05-18/feature_full.html   (5587 words)

  
 Native Americans: Miami History and Culture (Miami Indian Tribe)
As a complement to our Illinois-Miami language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Miami people and various aspects of their society.
Miami history is interesting and important, but the Miami are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary artwork as well as archaeology exhibits, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
History of the Miami Indian tribes of Ohio, with a map of Miami Ohio settlements
www.native-languages.org /miami.htm   (283 words)

  
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Costa crisscrossed the country to find remnants of the language in the dusty records of French missionaries; in colonial correspondence, travel journals and maps; and in the manuscripts left by earlier scholars.
Baldwin's desire to preserve the Miami's cultural heritage led him to act as a translator between the linguistic and native communities.
While many of the Miami were forced to leave Indiana in 1846 as part of a government relocation plan, some members were allowed to remain on special reserves.
www.thistlecreek.com /chronicle/mlangdoc.htm   (859 words)

  
 Canku Ota - May 6, 2000-Language Fades in History
Cook said she was inspired to apply for the prize after Hugh Morgan, a Miami journalism professor, helped the tribe publish a newspaper last year.
In 1846, remaining Miamis were moved by the federal government to Central Plains states.
Today, the tribe is split into the Miami Nation of Indiana, which operates in Peru, Ind., and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma in Miami, Okla. Their leaders are working together to revive the old language.
www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co05062000/CO_05062000_Language.htm   (500 words)

  
 Native Americans:Historic:The Illinois:Identity:Language
I was told that the languages of the Illinois and of the Miami were the same, and this is true, there being no difference except that the accent of the Illinois is very short and that of the Miami very long.
In the 1600s, speakers of the language pronounced the sound of the letter r.
Today, descendants of the Miami and Illinois peoples are attempting to reestablish Miami-Illinois as an actively spoken language through a project called the Miami Tribe Language Revitalization Effort.
www.museum.state.il.us /muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/id_lang.html   (249 words)

  
 Discount booking Rennert - Miami - USA Language School (Language Study, English Language course) - Language Studies
Sun and sand, salsa and style The tropical climate and landscape of Miami are only part of what makes it a major visitor destination.
The language school Rennert was founded in Miami, USA in 2000.
Located on the campus of St. Thomas University in Northwest Miami, halfway between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
www.languagecourse.net /school-rennert-miami.php3   (898 words)

  
 AISRI at Indiana University
The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans.
The Miami and the Illinois Native Americans speak closely related dialects of a language of the Algonquian language family.
Linguist David J. Costa reconstructs key elements of their language from available historical sources, close textual analysis of surviving stories, and comparison with related Algonquian languages.
www.indiana.edu /~aisri/publications/series_3/Miami-Illinois.shtml   (208 words)

  
 Key Languages learn spanish, english, french and more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Our goal is to help students develop their language skills and acquire a new language using the most up-to-date method and materials in the field of language teaching.
We also offer a range of language services, such as document and website translation, simultaneous interpretation and cross-cultural seminars provided by professional translators, interpreters and consultants.
"Language is itself the most exhilarating of games, an endless contest in which we are engaged all our lives, pure fun for the mind"
www.keylang.com   (165 words)

  
 >HEAT: Adelphia Cable in Dade County to Offer Sun Sports’ Spanish-language Miami HEAT Telecasts
MIAMI, March 22 — Adelphia Cable in Dade County will offer six of the remaining Miami HEAT home games Sun Sports is producing and distributing in Spanish this season.
These games are part of a 10-game new Spanish language telecast initiative from the Miami HEAT and Sun Sports which tipped off last month.
The first Spanish-language Miami HEAT game to be offered by Adelphia will be the March 24 game vs. Charlotte (7:30pm).
www.nba.com /heat/news/adelphia_spn_telecast_060323.html   (257 words)

  
 miaminewtimes.com - News - Hit Picks of Miami Lit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
My favorite book about Miami is an oldie, a 1925 volume on the shelves of some local libraries and antiquarian bookstores (and at my house).
A micro-hell of exile and the Cuban dictatorship.
This complex tale involving a Miami reporter investigating a murder is a great way to discover this award-winning novelist.
www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/2003-11-06/feature2_3.html   (690 words)

  
 NEWSLETTER
For those who were attending for the first time, we did not expect them to speak the language, but for them to just listen in order to become accustomed to the sound and flow of the language while experiencing the camp.
The annual myaamiaki maawipyaayankwi (Miami Language and Homecoming Camp) is a wonderful and unique opportunity for all Miami people to not only learn their ancestral language, but to also spend time with fellow Miami’s on the land of our ancestors.
As I mentioned earlier, the re-awakening of the Miami language plays a key role in the healing of our community, so by attending the camp and the many other gatherings that we have throughout the year, you too can help in that healing of the Miami Nation.
www.miamiindians.org /NEWSLETTER.htm   (2160 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:MIA
The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
Miami in north central Indiana, Miami and Peoria in northeast Oklahoma.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=MIA   (70 words)

  
 Language Courses Miami :: Language School in Miami :: Language Teachers in Miami (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Language Trainers provide language courses in Miami to individuals and small groups of people who need to learn languages either for Business or General use.
Our native speaker qualified language teachers can train you at your office or home at a time to suit you.
Language teachers looking for work in Miami should fill out our Language Trainer Job Application Form.
www.languagetrainers.com.cob-web.org:8888 /miami_language_courses.php   (174 words)

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